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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concurrence \Con*cur"rence\, noun [F., competition, equality of rights, fr. LL. concurrentia competition.]
1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. --Locke.
2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation.
Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. --Swift.
3. Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; co["o]peration.
We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it. --Rogers.
An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence. --Burke.
4. A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
concurrence
noun
1: agreement of results or opinions
2: acting together as of agents or circumstances or events
3: a state of cooperation [syn: {meeting of minds}]
4: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: {coincidence}, {conjunction}, {co-occurrence}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
228 Moby Thesaurus words for "concurrence": acceptance, accession, acclamation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, acquiescence, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, agreement in principle, agreement of all, alignment, alternation, analogy, approach, articulation, assemblage, assembly, assent, assentation, asymptote, bipartisanship, bond, bottleneck, bracketing, call-up, canvass, census, chorus, clustering, co-occurrence, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coextension, coincidence, collaboration, collaborativeness, collection, collectivism, colligation, collineation, collision course, collocation, collusion, combination, commensalism, common assent, common consent, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communication, communism, communitarianism, community, comparison, complementary distribution, compliance, complicity, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concert, concomitance, concomitancy, concord, concordance, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, convergence, converging, cooperation, cooperativeness, copulation, corralling, coupling, crossing, data-gathering, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, engagement, equidistance, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, focalization, focus, funnel, gathering, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, harmony, hearty assent, hookup, hub, ingathering, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, interlinking, intermeshing, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, inventory, isochronism, joinder, joining, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, liaison, like-mindedness, linkage, linking, marriage, mass action, meeting, meeting of minds, merger, merging, mesh, meshing, mobilization, morale, muster, mutual approach, mutual assistance, mutual understanding, mutualism, mutuality, narrowing gap, nondivergence, octet, one accord, one voice, pairing, parallelism, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quid pro quo, quintet, radius, reciprocity, rodeo, roundup, same mind, seesaw, septet, sextet, simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, splice, spokes, support, survey, symbiosis, synchronism, synchronization, synergism, synergy, tangent, team spirit, teamwork, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tit for tat, togetherness, total agreement, trio, triumvirate, troika, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, unification, union, unison, united action, universal agreement, warm assent, welcome, withness, yoking
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